GIVE ME A CHANCE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Amanda @top picture.....

I still can't believe am in South Africa, the country looks very nice.
We just arrived Champions Montessori school South Africa, they are the ones hosting the competition.
Coach Noah and coach Noel our school fitness teachers were the ones that accompanied us there.
We went to join the other schools to stand in the queue so that we will be given our 🆔 card and room numbers.
We were just seven schools competing
1: Blue Whale international school Ivory coast
2: Blossom Montessori School Tanzania.
3: Pure heart high school Cameroon
4: Champions Montessori school South Africa
5: Gold Coast international school Nigeria
6: Senegal High school
7: Kuffour High school Ghana.
Each schools came along with 5 athletes, so we were 35 Athletes all together, 19 girls and 16 boys.
All schools have already arrived and were already standing on the queue. The rooms were being shared two girls to a room then a boy to a room...Lucky boys.
I just stood on the queue praying silently that I wasn't given the same room as Gwen, that means they were literally asking us to go and kill ourselves.

Just then I saw a girl walking towards towards me looking at me weirdly. I looked at the girl back and immediately my handbag fell from from my hand.
The next minute I was in the girls arms giving her a soul squashing hug. "Amanda!!! I can't believe an seeing you now!! Where have you been!!" I asked giving her sometime to breathe.
"Alex!! God!! You have grown so big, I almost didn't recognize you"
Amanda has been my childhood best friend back at Cameroon but she had to relocate to Tanzania when her dad got a job there, we were just twelve years old then and I can never forget how much I cried that night.
And since then we lost contact and all of a sudden am seeing my best friend now in an Athletic competition.. Wow!!.

After 5 minutes of crying and hugging ourselves, telling ourselves how much we miss each other we finally stood in the queue gossiping about some random things,Amanda came with Blossom Montessori school Tanzania, if felt just like old times am having a feeling this competition is gonna be way too good for me.
Just then I spotted Gwen whispering something into Zain's ear, ewwwwh that bitch.
"Alex?" Amanda snapped me out of my thought.
"Yes Bae"
"What you thinking of? Common let's go, we were assigned to the same room"
"Wow!!" I squealed happily "common let's go" I said picking up my bag and throwing Gwen. Big fuck you over my shoulders.

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We finally found room 0012 which was our room.
The room was looking spacious and neat, we started arranging our things putting our clothes in the closet, our toiletries in the bathroom, our shoes on the shoe rack and our snacks in the fridge.
When we have finished arranging the room it was already 5:35pm so we just sat down on the bed catching up on old gists. When I told her about the death of my parents she cried and apologized for not coming for the funeral.
Just then a lady voice boomed from a hidden speaker in the room "Good evening students, please kindly come down to the dinning hall in five minutes time for your dinner, thank you"
"What the hell was that"I said looking around the room trying to find the speaker, then I saw it on the ceiling. It was like a small bud on the ceiling... Wow Technology.
I went to the shoe rack to put on my slippers when Rachael sat upright on the best like though she just remembered something "mamma, I finally saw DJ today!!" She squealed happily like a little girl who was just given a full chocolate cake.
"Alex that guy is so cute, I just couldn't stop looking at him, his friends too they are cute also and I heard they are from Kuffour High sc.... Wait a sec!! That's your right??" She asked grinning like an idiot, sorry to use that word but this whole Zain thing was really beginning to piss me off.
"So?" I replied with a shug
"So? Like seriously? Why are you feeling so nonchalant about this, Alex you travelled all the way from Ghana to south Africa in the same plane with Zainomi and his friends and the only thing you have to say is so?"
"Pumpkin there's nothing cool about Zain trust me"big lie.....
"Common let's go eat already am starving" I said putting on my ear piece and walking out of the room.
"What!!" She yelled following me out of the room.
" You better stop right there! What do you mean there's nothing cool about Zain?/everything about that guy is cool"
"Mamma you are shouting" I said noticing the glares people were already throwing us coz of the noise she was Making.
"Who cares"she said glaring back at them.
"Seriously??" I scoffed, turning on my music and walking down the staircase.